. >>> first lady michelle obama is in the holiday spirit and she answered calls from kids across the country as part of norad's track santa program. they took calls from hawaii, where she and the rest of the first family are spending christmas. >>> queen elizabeth's annual christmas message has an extra dimension being broadcast in 3-d for the first time. she used part of her message to praise the olympic and paralympics from last sum jeer for most of us we can't live without our smartphone. from cool cameras to e-readers to 3-d tvs, there's lots more out there. paul reynolds an editor for "consumer reports" magazine and he picked his top five picks for the holiday season. thanks for joining us. we'll go five, four, three, two were one and we'll start with something i'm dying to get my hands on. the ipad mini. >> right. lots of tablets introduced to compete and the most notable was another ipad which is a smaller ipad. 8.8" instead of 9.7. much lighter and thinner and in some ways does some stuff that maybe better than the original ipad like for books, for example, it's so much light